Improvement in type-cases



GREEN.

TYPE-CASES. I No. 174,905. Patented March 21,1876.

N-PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHH, WASHINGTON, D. C

SAMUEL W. GREEN, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO EDWARD N. DIGKERSON,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., TRUSTEE FOR HENRY A. BURR.

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IMPROVEMENT l'N TYPE-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. l 7 1,905, dated March 21. 1876; application filed J annary 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SAMUEL W. GREEN, of the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and usel'ul Improvement in Type-Cases, of which the following is a description In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a plan, and Fig. 2 a sectional view of my improved type-case, while Figs. 3 and 4. represent in like views a galley containing a body of composed type.

In using some type-setting machines, the matter is delivered in long-lines in suitableholders, which long lines are afterward justitled in the proper measure by hand. In such machines, generally, certain characters are left to be put in during justification, and it is therefore a desideratuin to have all the characters for which there are boxes in a pair of cases, as usually made, easily accessible to the justifier. For this purpose I have invented an improvement in the usual lower case. This improvement consists in the construction of a casr, in which a compartment is provided of sufficient Width to contain a series of the holders containing the lines delivered from a type-setting machine ready for justification,

. with a plain bottom and holes at each end,

through which the operator can easily lift in or out such a series. This compartment extends the length of the case, and is introduced between the firstand second rows of boxes, all the boxes being made proportionally narrow in the direction of the width of the case, and retaining their usual size in the direction of the length of the case. For convenience in spacing, I divide some of the boxes in the lower row, so as to provide in that row for all or .nearly all the different spaces needed, so that the justifiers fingers may have the least distance to travel.

This case is also adapted for use in the correction of matter on galleys, the galleybeing a frame, 1 2 3 4. Holes B are out through the bottom 5 for the admission of the fingers, and

the adjacent edges of the frame 1 2 are chamfered off, as at e, to prevent abrasion ot' the fingers. 1 What I claim as my invention is A type-case constructed with boxes for holding types and a compartment for receiving and supporting a galley or similar holder for composed matter, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

SAMUEL W. GREEN.

Witnesses:

H. T. MUNSON, JNO. D. PATTEN. 

